Try newser.com. If you register, there's a slider you can use to show a preference for "hard" vs. "soft" news. Good capsule summaries of articles let you decide if you want to click through to the source material. In most cases you won't, as the summary usually supplies all you need to know.
Just be sure to use ScriptSafe or another similar add-on to avoid flying thingys from taking over your screen.
Still waiting for someone to invent a browser add-on in which I can enter words like "Kardashian," "Taylor Swift" or "George Zimmerman" and NEVER again have to see an article containing those terms.